McKayla Rose Maroney is an American artistic gymnast who competed in the 2012 London Olympics and was a part of the US women’s gymnastics team that won the gold medal. Rose, who was born in 1995, has already achieved a great deal of celebrity at such a young age.
McKayla Maroney’s net worth:
McKayla Maroney is a former American gymnast with a $4 million net worth. Maroney began gymnastics classes at the age of two and began serious training at the age of nine. McKayla started competing as a junior when she was 13 years old. Maroney won a gold medal in the women’s artistic team all-around competition and a silver medal in the women’s vault competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics, alongside Gabby Douglas, Kyla Ross, Aly Raisman, and Jordyn Wieber. She also won three gold medals at the 2010 Pan American Championships, as well as two gold medals at the 2011 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships and one gold medal at the 2013 edition. McKayla has also performed in the Thirty Seconds to Mars video “Up in the Air” and guest-starred on the television shows “Hart of Dixie” (2012–2015), “Bones” (2013), and “Superstore” (2016). She has also released the 2020 singles “Wake Up Call” and “Covid Lockdown,” and released the 2020 singles “Wake Up Call” and “Covid Lockdown” (2013). In early 2016, Maroney announced her retirement from competitive gymnastics.
Early Years:
McKayla Maroney was born McKayla Rose Maroney in Aliso Viejo, California, on December 9, 1995. Her mother, Erin, was a high school athlete and figure skater, and her father, Mike (who died in 2019), was a Purdue University football player. McKayla was homeschooled before studying to be a gymnast and grew up in an Irish-Catholic household with younger sister Tarynn and younger brother Kav. At the age of two, Erin enrolled McKayla in a gymnastics class, and at the age of nine, Maroney decided she wanted to participate in the Olympics and started training at Gym-Max, a United States of America Gymnastics National Team training center in Costa Mesa.